日本人有认为自己是中国古典文化的真正继承者吗？ [美国媒体]

Do the Japanese ever see themselves as the true inheritors of classical Chinese culture?

日本人有认为自己是中国古典文化的真正继承者吗？



Joseph Wang, studied at Ph.D Astronomy UT Austin, Physics MIT
Answered 20h ago
Yes. Before World War II.
The big names associated with this is Ishiwara Kanji and Konoe Atsumaro. It was put in in the banner of pan-Asianism.
One example of this sort of thinking is in Okakura Kakuzo’s “Book of Tea” where he describes the evolution of tea culture, and how classical tea culture was destroyed in China by the Mongols and the Manchus and how the Japanese preserved it. See chapter II.
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
I should point out that my own knowledge on this is mainly reading about the Japanese colonization of Manchukuo, and my own interest in this has to do with the question “how do wonderfully utopian and idealistic visions create hell on earth?” To use a Japanese metaphor, working with these ideas is like eating fugu or puffer fish. The ideas that the pre-WWII Japanese thinkers have on racial harmony and pan-Asianism really sound great. So how did it turn into hell?

是在，在二战之前。其中最着名的两人是石原莞尔和近卫笃麿。他们扛的是泛亚主义的旗帜。
这种思想的其中一个例子是冈仓天心的《茶之书》，里面讲到了茶文化的演化，以及中国的经典茶文化是如何被蒙古人和满人摧毁的，以及日本人如何保存了经典茶文化。看第二章。
我应该指出的是我对这方面的了解主要是看了日本殖民满洲国的历史，以及我自己的一个疑问，就是“为什么这个美好的乌托邦和理想主义的愿景会造成地球上的噩梦？”用日本的一个隐喻来说就是拥有这样的理想就好比在吃河豚。二战前的日本思想家的种族和谐以及泛亚主义思想听起来真的很不错。那为什么后来演变成那种结局呢？



Can Zhang, studied at Culture of China
Answered Thu
Two aspects of it, by two different pre-WWII factions.
One of them believed that Japanese inheritance of Chinese culture forms a basis of Japan's claim to territories within China. Members such as Ishiwara Kanji justified their invasion of Manchuria by claiming that the Japanese were originally Chinese who lived in Manchuria, which he associated with the legendary Japanese realm of the gods, Takeamagahara, and that Japan was entitled to more territory that were also conquered by the Manchus, which would include China proper, because of this connection.
Another believed that Chinese culture dictates that East Asia should be a hierarchial harmonic society led by a big brother that had up to now been China, and that since China was weak and Japan was strong then, Japan is now the big brother and China's resistance to the fact should be punished as though an older brother punishes a younger. Members of this group included Matsui Iwane, who came out of retirement to invade China out of this belief.



Rudy Widodo
Answered Thu
The context of “classical Chinese culture” is too broad, it spans across time and space. Which city/region? Which century?
So what does it mean to be an inheritor of classical Chinese culture?

“中国经典文化”这个背景太广泛了，它跨越了时间和空间。哪一个城市/地区？哪一个世纪？
所以成为中国经典文化的继承者意味着什么？